Toy gun.



A. C. ANTHONY.

TOY GUN.

APPLICATION HLED NOV. 4. 1914.

1,1 38,529. Patented May 4, 1915.

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ABEL C. ANTHONY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

'IOY GUN.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented May a, 1915.

Application filed November 4, 1914. Serial No. 870,289.

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The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of a gun which can be cheaply manufactured and willprove an effective toy which can readily discharge projectiles such as small sticks of woodsimilar to matches, or the like.

Still further objects of the invention reside in a toy which, on account of its cheap ness of manufacture and the fact that it is preferably made of a single piece of material, provides an effective little souvenir.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of the toy gun, showing the projector in firing position; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through the structure shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the views, I disclose a gun which is preferably made of a single piece of tubular bamboo, preferably closed at one end, with the tubular portion forming a barrel 10. A portion 11 of the tubular barrel is out almost entirely therefrom by slitting away a fibrous portion of the barrel toward the inner end thereof, the closed end of the barrel 10 being preferably formed by a knot of the bamboo and at which point the slitted portion remains integral with the barrel. This slitted portion is then bent upon itself and forms a projector 13. An elongated opening is formed in the tubular barrel and the free end of the projector extends therein, as shown.

Now it will be clearly seen that the portion of the projector extending into the opening can be manually retreated therein, after which a projectile (not shown) such as a match stick or a small pellet, can be placed inthe opening 14: or dropped into the open end ofthe barrel so that it will bearagainst that portion of the projector lying in the opening. The projector is now released and, dueto the peculiar bending of the bamboo and its inherent spring-like nature, the pro jector will spring forward in the opening, thus discharging the pellet or projectile from the barrel. As mentioned heretofore, the entire device is formed of a single piece of bamboo which, with a knife or other suitable tool, is'slit longitudinally to partially remove a surface portion or sliver, leaving'one end of the sliver integral with the knot end of the piece of tubular bamboo, the removed portion being then bent upon itself to form the projector extending into the opening which is subsequently formed in the barrel.

From the foregoing description it will be clearly seen that the device described can be cheaply manufactured in that the entire article consists of a single piece of material; that it cannot get out of order, has no metallic or other springs forming separate parts of the structure and that the springlike action of the projector is due entirely to the inherent spring-like quality of the portion of bamboo partially removed from the body or tubular barrel.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a gun formed of a single piece of tubular material having a portion partially slit lengthwise thereof, with its inner end integral with the piece of material, said portion forming a spring-like projector and extending into an opening formed in the tubular portion of the piece of material.

2. A toy gun comprising a tubular member provided with an opening and a projector formed integral with said tubular member and having a portion .thereof extending into said opening.

3. A gun formed of a single piece of bamboo closed by a knot at one end, said bamboo being longitudinally out to-provide a portion partially severed from the body of the piece of bamboo and having its inner end integral with the knot end of the bamboo, said portion forming a spring-like projector operating in an opening formed in the piece of bamboo.

4. A toy gun comprising a tubular memher having an opening communicating with its interior and a projector formed inteing its free end operating in said opening,

'with the forward and backward movement I ofthe free end of the projector in the opening limited by transverse portions of said tubular member, said transverse portions forming the end walls of the opening.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ABEL C. ANTHONY.

Witnesses: V

R. K. NLALEBUB, HIRAM ABIF DEGKELMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. I 

